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Digital OOH Start-Up That Puts Screens On Uber Cars Adds $30M Series A Raise

A San Francisco start-up called Firefly that puts digital OOH media screens on the tops of rideshare cars has announced a $30 million series A funding round, which is on top of a $21 million round late last year. Firefly offers a supplemental revenue stream to rideshare drivers in return for affixing a hyper-local, geo-fenced digital sign on the cartop. […]

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Thu, May 30, 2019 at 3:25 PM

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16:9: IoT Weight Sensors On Sydney’s Commuter Rail Cars Show Occupancy Estimates On Platform Screens

This is very clever and useful – commuters travelling on the rail network in Sydney, Australia can now make informed decisions on where to stand on a platform for the best shot at getting a seat. The rail authority, Transport for NSW, now has digital signage on platforms that shows which rail cars have seats available, have standing room only or are completely full. […]

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Wed, May 29, 2019 at 10:28 AM

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16:9: Sydney’s New Metro Line Dotted With E-Paper Information Signs

The first 36 kilometers of Australia’s biggest public transport project, the newly-opened Sydney Metro Northwest line, are interspersed with stops that provide steadily updated schedule/status information on solar-powered e-paper screens. […]

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Wed, May 29, 2019 at 8:01 AM

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Holograms With A Business Model – Ronnie Lee Explains His Virtual DJ Start-up

When DSE was on a few weeks ago in Las Vegas, I wandered down to the other end of the convention center to get a glimpse of the legendarily crazy Nightclub and Bar Show – where endless booths pour free drink samples. […]

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Tue, May 28, 2019 at 11:26 PM

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Huge 107-Wide LED Canvas Celebrates San Francisco’s People And Past

A huge, 107-foot-wide digital canvas is now lit up at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), with a year-long exhibition celebrating the city’s people and history. The exhibit is a digital mural that uses a 2.5mm fine pitch LED display made by SNA Displays and put in by frequent technical partner Sensory Interactive. […]

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Tue, May 28, 2019 at 5:22 AM

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16:9: New AI Exhibit’s Interactive Screen Creates Synthesized Versions Of Viewers

A new interactive digital artwork at the Barbican in London uses camera sensors and a big digital display to generate unique digital forms of people who visit an exhibit called AI: More Than Human. At the entrance to the exhibition, the visitor is greeted by a screen which acts as a mirror, reflecting a unique synthetic form. […]

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Fri, May 24, 2019 at 9:05 AM

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16:9: Great Digital Signage Screens Can Come In Small Packages

Guest Post: Christina Condomaros, Yodeck Christina Condomaros Smaller screens for digital signage probably isn’t something you think of as effective. I mean, bigger is better, right? But smaller screens could be the perfect showstoppers – and money makers. […]

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Fri, May 24, 2019 at 8:35 AM

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16:9: How High Dynamic Range Is Transforming Digital Displays

Guest Post: Aaron Cheesman , D3 Dynamic Digital Displays Aaron Cheesman The video industry has gone through monumental changes over the years. However, for a long time, the focus was on producing thinner screens and higher resolutions. […]

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Thu, May 23, 2019 at 11:44 PM

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16:9: DSF Toronto Plans June 6th Mixer Based On Digital Signage In Dining

Capital Networks’ Kelly Smith and the Toronto chapter of the Digital Signage Federation have organized the second in what is planned as a running series of breakfast mixers. The June 6th event is focused on Digital In Dining, and features people from McDonalds and Aramark, as well as iGotcha Media. The event is out in Mississauga at Samsung’s Canadian HQ. […]

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Thu, May 23, 2019 at 11:17 AM

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This Crazy LED Chandelier Was Installed In A Chinese Lux Hotel

This is in a hotel – repeat, a hotel – in Foshan, China, about 90 minutes up a freeway from Shenzhen. It is an LED chandelier thingie (technical term) made up of five 4mm pixel pitch flexible LEDs, There are also 12 suspended LED columns. The thing can travel up and down more than 30 feet. […]

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Wed, May 22, 2019 at 6:14 AM

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16:9: Why Canada’s Biggest Cinema Company Is In Digital Signage

Canadians all know Cineplex as the dominant movie theater chain in that country, and the Toronto-based company has also been expanding its reach, in recent years, into other related lines of business. […]

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Tue, May 21, 2019 at 11:16 PM

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NYC’s 28 Liberty Gets Reinvigorated With Big Lobby LED Features

Here’s another example of how big fine-pitch LED video walls are the 2019 version of 1980s and 90s water features in office tower lobbies. The property owners for 28 Liberty in New York wanted a visual solution that  reinvigorated the space and, more to the point, made tenants want to move in and existing ones decide to stay. […]

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Tue, May 21, 2019 at 4:36 PM

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11:9: New Liverpool Seven Store Makes Digital Signage A Focal Point

Some nice uses of narrow bezel Philips LCD displays in this new Seven apparel store in Liverpool, put in by the UK solutions provider Skratch. Not really sure about the big green wall with the shoe display shelves. Don’t see bezels, so I am either missing that in the pic, it’s LED ($$$!!!), or a fabric print in front of lightboxes. […]

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Tue, May 21, 2019 at 1:22 PM

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Ferrari Dealer Switches Out Paper Showroom Fact Sheets For E-Paper Tags

The guys at Freshwater Digital have built up knowledge and experience working with e-paper signs – or what they call digital tags – and introduced them into interesting use cases. I know the Grand Rapids, MI solution provider has a research client using them at stations to automatically update findings and status. […]

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Tue, May 21, 2019 at 7:24 AM

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16:9: New Statue Of Liberty Museum Is Filled With Screens

Here’s a look at the newly-opened Statue of Liberty Museum, which is located Guess Where. The new museum is part of a $100 million Liberty Island-wide beautification effort that’s being funded by the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, in collaboration with the National Park Service and the U.S. Department of the Interior. […]

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Tue, May 21, 2019 at 6:11 AM

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